-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, WrJfUrPH2o02RW4BD55KGpDtD9M597TXPY3Z1QLluhLt5gl7YwiAVnwSAI3MsR7Z WEpMswbPtappK1Z0wSdqkw== 0001104659-06-010252.txt : 20060216 0001104659-06-010252.hdr.sgml : 20060216 20060216185958 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001104659-06-010252 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 4 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20060214 FILED AS OF DATE: 20060216 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20060216 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: ABBOTT LABORATORIES CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000001800 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS [2834] IRS NUMBER: 360698440 STATE OF INCORPORATION: IL FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 100 ABBOTT PARK ROAD STREET 2: D-322 AP6D CITY: ABBOTT PARK STATE: IL ZIP: 60064-3500 BUSINESS PHONE: 8479376100 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Tyree James L CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001324991 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 4 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-02189 FILM NUMBER: 06626815 BUSINESS ADDRESS: BUSINESS PHONE: (847) 937-6100 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 100 ABBOTT PARK ROAD CITY: ABBOTT PARK STATE: IL ZIP: 60064-6400 4 1 a4.xml 4 X0202 4 2006-02-14 0 0000001800 ABBOTT LABORATORIES ABT 0001324991 Tyree James L 100 ABBOTT PARK ROAD ABBOTT PARK IL 60064-6400 0 1 0 0 Senior Vice President Common shares without par value 2006-02-14 4 M 0 12635 33.2314 A 79238 D Common shares without par value 2006-02-14 4 F 0 10697 42.83 D 68541 D Common shares without par value 1107 I Profit Sharing Trust Option (right to buy) 33.2314 2006-02-14 4 M 0 12635 0 D 2006-02-14 2013-02-13 common shares 12635 5100 D Option (right to buy) 42.83 2006-02-14 4 A 0 10697 0 A 2006-08-15 2013-02-13 common shares 10697 10697 D Balance in the Abbott Laboratories Stock Retirement Trust as of February 14, 2006. Employee stock option granted pursuant to the Abbott Laboratories 1996 Incentive Stock Program, including a replacement option feature, in a transaction exempt from Section 16 under Rule 16b-3. John A. Berry, by power of attorney for James L. Tyree 2006-02-16 EX-24 2 ex-24.htm EX-24

Exhibit 24

POWER OF ATTORNEY

The undersigned constitutes and appoints LAURA J. SCHUMACHER, JOHN A. BERRY and DEBORAH K. KOENEN, and each of them individually, as the undersigned’s true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for the undersigned and in the undersigned’s name, place and stead, to prepare and sign any and all Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) Notices of Proposed Sales of Securities pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act of 1933 on Form 144, all SEC statements on Forms 3, 4 and 5 as required under Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and any amendments to such forms, and to file the same with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the SEC, granting unto said attorney-in-fact and agent full power and authority to do and perform each act and thing requisite and necessary to be done under said Rule 144 and Section 16(a), as fully for all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

A copy of this power of attorney shall be filed with the SEC. The authorization set forth above shall continue in full force and effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 144, 3, 4 or 5 or if earlier, until the undersigned revokes such authorization by written instructions to the attorney-in-fact.

Date: February 16, 2006

	/s/ James L. Tyree
	Signature of Reporting Person
	James L. Tyree
	Senior Vice President
	Name and Title


	Abbott Laboratories
	100 Abbott Park Road
	Abbott Park, IL 60064-6400

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